Indian Companies Seek Comprehensive Cybersecurity: CTO, HP By CIOTechOutlook Team

Indian Companies Seek Comprehensive Cybersecurity: CTO, HP

CIOTechOutlook Team | Tuesday, 19 December 2023, 03:37 IST

Organizations throughout India are having mature discussions about cybersecurity and want a multi-layered and complete "secure-by-design" approach in place, according to Hewlett Packard Enterprise India's chief technology officer.

“Earlier it was more like a support mode kind where you had some peripheral security, cybersecurity elements being placed. Today we are having very mature conversations with customers. Organisations are now thinking how to put people, processes and technology together and monitor that constantly,” Sadasiva Ranganath, as per economic times.

On certain days, HPE logs up to 2.6 billion tracked requests and cybersecurity-related incidents. According to him, cybersecurity is no longer a "one-time effort" that businesses make.

“Today, I cannot say I have the best of servers with the best of security. That is not good enough. The question is how to build that safety from storage to connectivity to an application or API stack. That becomes important,” he said.

During 2022, the business prevented an average of 1,060 phishing emails every day, for a total of 1 billion email threat vectors blocked. Despite the fact that more than half of the cybersecurity incidents investigated by HPE's cyber fusion center were caused by user-initiated actions such as installing or attempting to install infected software or running crypto-mining programs and tools, the company's security controls were able to thwart those, he said.

Banking and financial services, healthcare, and government-run businesses are more exposed to such threats and cybersecurity problems since the data that may be stolen or mined is more valuable. Despite the fact that certain sectors' activities are more vital, and hence more vulnerable, HPE India does not distinguish when working with clients in these areas compared to other less-critical industries, he added.